CANBERRA, ACT, Dec. 18 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
There is no place in Australia for antisemitism. It is an evil that tears at the fabric of our country. It puts the peaceful, free and equal society we cherish at risk.
Sadly, since the terrible events of October 2023 we have witnessed a series of appalling attacks targeting Australia's Jewish community.
That culminated on Sunday in one of the worst acts of mass murder this country has ever seen.
The ISIS-inspired terrorist atrocity that killed 15 innocent people - including a 10-year-old girl - was an attack on our Jewish community and it was an attack on the Australian way of life.
The Albanese Government thanks Australia's Special Envoy to ...